Word: pounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...predecessor: Ezra Pound, now (as then) a mental patient in St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington...
...peso is worth around six cents. Though the increases horrified local residents, dollar-bearing tourists still found it possible to regard beef at 25 cents a pound and rum at $1 a bottle with equanimity...
...Hassan Abd el Rahim, 42, burly, fat-padded Egyptian army lieutenant, who refreshed himself mid-Channel with five cups of tea and coffee, two cheese sandwiches, a pear and a pound of honey. No. 2 in the race almost to the end, he sprinted the last few hundred yards, clambered ashore the winner in the record-breaking time of 10 hours 53 minutes.† "Allah, Allah, a record!" he shouted...
James Rathschmidt, in charge of Princeton lightweight rowing before the war and head freshman coach since 1946, succeeds Allen (Skip) Walz, who resigned to enter private industry. His 1942 150-pound crew established a record for the Henley distance at Carnegie Lake which still stands. He has also enjoyed considerable success with his freshman crews...
...last week the radio and television corps in Korea had grown to a platoon of 25 men, including such experienced hands as CBS's Ed Murrow and Bill Costello. Many of the later arrivals came armed with twelve-pound Minitape recorders, transcribed their stories on the spot and flew the tape to Tokyo for broadcast to the U.S. Along with such eyewitness accounts, the networks were also distilling, from their own sources, and from the regular news services, enough material for nearly 300 newscasts each week...